CVE-2020-10531

Summary

CVECVE-2020-10531
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-03-12 19:15:13 UTC
Updated2026-10-14 09:17:16 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ through 66.1. An integer overflow, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, exists in the UnicodeString::doAppend() function in common/unistr.cpp.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 8.8 HIGH from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem Types: CWE-190 | CWE-787 | n/a


VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Primary8.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
2.0[email protected]Primary6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Application Google Chrome All All All All
Application Icu-project International Components For Unicode All All All All
Application Nodejs Node.js All All All All
Application Nodejs Node.js All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Extensibility Workbench 14.3.0 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Extensibility Workbench 14.4.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified
ADP Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP affected V3.1.0 V3.1.5 custom Not specified
ADP Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP affected V3.1.0 V3.1.5 custom Not specified
ADP Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP affected V3.1.0 V3.1.5 custom Not specified
ADP Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP affected V3.1.0 V3.1.5 custom Not specified
ADP Siemens SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP affected V3.1.0 V3.1.5 custom Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
9f4020916eb1f28f3666f018fdcbe6c9a37f0e08 - chromium/deps/icu - Git at Google af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 chromium.googlesource.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e cert-portal.siemens.com
Log in with Atlassian account af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 unicode-org.atlassian.net Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2022 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: chromium-80.0.3987.132-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0459-1: important: Security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2021 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: nodejs-14.15.1-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2021 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4646-1 icu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
ICU: Integer overflow (GLSA 202003-15) — Gentoo security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 chromereleases.googleblog.com Third Party Advisory
ICU-20958 Prevent SEGV_MAPERR in append · unicode-org/icu@b7d08bc · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
USN-4305-1: ICU vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2151-1] icu security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: chromium-80.0.3987.149-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
1044570 - chromium - An open-source project to help move the web forward. - Monorail af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.chromium.org Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
ICU-20958 Prevent SEGV_MAPERR in UnicodeString::doAppend() by FrankYFTang · Pull Request #971 · unicode-org/icu · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: chromium-80.0.3987.149-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MITRE lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: nodejs-14.15.1-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MITRE lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: chromium-80.0.3987.132-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MITRE lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 376915 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for icu (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0035)
  • 377102 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for nodejs:14 (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0022)
  • 500258 Alpine Linux Security Update for icu
  • 504008 Alpine Linux Security Update for icu
  • 591406 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU GNU/Linux subsystem Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSB-439005, ICSA-22-104-13)
  • 670276 EulerOS Security Update for icu (EulerOS-SA-2021-1801)
  • 755134 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for icu73_2 (SUSE-SU-2023:3563-2)
  • 755187 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for icu73_2 (SUSE-SU-2023:3563-3)
  • 940162 AlmaLinux Security Update for nodejs:12 (ALSA-2020:1293)
  • 940389 AlmaLinux Security Update for nodejs:10 (ALSA-2020:1317)
  • 940418 AlmaLinux Security Update for icu (ALSA-2020:0902)
  • 960302 Rocky Linux Security Update for nodejs:12 (RLSA-2020:1293)
  • 960400 Rocky Linux Security Update for nodejs:10 (RLSA-2020:1317)
  • 960876 Rocky Linux Security Update for icu (RLSA-2020:0902)

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